Guardians vs. Twins Game 1 Highlights (8/9/24) | MLB Highlights

First place in the central on the line this weekend at Target field as Cleveland is in town for four and they lead the Twins by 3.5 games for the top spot in the division. It starts with a double header today but the day has already gotten off to a rough start for the twins. The news of the day, the news on Joe ryan much worse than it hoped for as Joe has a grade two right terrace major strain that is a muscle that connects the shoulder blade and the humerus, no throwing for six plus weeks, which means joe is done for the season today. Starting pitcher Bailey Ober coming in with a very nifty 11 to 5 record 3.69. Er, a making his 22nd start of the season three, 32 entering play today. Only Bobby Wood Junior has a higher batting average than right now. This one back of short, this one fading, fading but there is and there's ball four. So Schieman who has a walk rate of 11% league average at 8% is on base and that will bring up jose Ramirez to the right side that's caught by farmer throws back to first, not in time and is back in safely. Struck him out with a change up and over with a solid start, a walk but no damage done. Twins are coming up scoreless here in game one. Well, we go now to the bottom of the first inning, Joey Cano in the scoreless game, man. Well, go drives one deep center over the head of Thomas. One bounce up against the wall and wow for Joey Canti of the first pitch of the game doesn't go very well for him. Kyle Swar took him out of the yard when he made his debut in Philadelphia. Manuel Margo smoke a double to straight away center that will bring up Byron Buxton. Buxton to right to be playable for Brennan, but Margo will tag and advance to third base. So Buxton flies out to right Margo at third and Royce Lewis is coming up, pulled to third backhanded by Sne and Bobbles recovers and will throw out Lewis as Margo scores. So Lewis drives in Margo day night double header game 11 nothing. Minnesota. Carlos Santa a long time. Cleveland first baseman has not enjoyed facing his former team as a twin this season one for 20 so far against the Guardians trying to change that and he will left and deep and gone second deck home run. Carlos Santana and the twins take a 20 lead but joe Cantillo for whatever reason, as Dickens have a time with whoever is leading off and inning, they're looking for that heater and that was elevated bell high and he hit that into the second deck two twins, third inning board. The number nine hitter leads off a swinging Miss and Naylor's down on strikes. Third strike out for Big Bailey over and there's one down for the top of the order. Steven Kwan ninth pitch of this at bat. A great changeup may have changed the complexion of this game. 20 twins after three and the Guardians go quietly again as Ober is on a roll seven in a row retired over doing his job. He sets down the Guardians in order and there's not a lot of run through four twins lead two nothing Os throwing. Well, but you sure like to pick up some insurance pad that number a little bit. This ball hit high in the air to left field deep into left field , Kan's looking up and that ball is gone off the facing of the second deck and Ryan Jeffers adds on another fastball up that gets drilled out of the ballpark. It's a solo shot, but they've got three on the board. Now that's ball four and the Guardians have a leadoff baserunner here in the fifth inning. So we'll see if they can do something with that. That's the second walk by Ober and here comes Brennan line drive base hit right field Will. Brennan is two for two and the Guardians finally have something brewing with two on and nobody out here in the fifth Roli out to right in the second inning big pitch right now for Bailey struck him out. 92 comes back and picks up out number one to now seventh strikeout swing and miss with his changeup, juan Digs in, he's zero for two. He flied to center and popped to left in the air to playable. Right. Once again, we induced by Ober Kepler makes the play and Ober works out of it two on nobody out. The Guardians do not score. Bailey Ober back out for the sixth leading off for the Guardians. Daniel looked like he went. He did change once again, induces a check and to commit and sen strikes out for the second time, eighth strikeout from Ober once again with the changeup struck him out with a slider, nine strikeouts for Ober and Ramirez is now zero for three. Bailey now at 100 pitches trying to get through the sixth for 1/9 consecutive quality start. This one tapped back to Bailey. He's got plenty of time. Now bobble bobbled again and now shows some frustration slamming that ball down and Ober will be charged with an error and he'll face Lane Thomas. He's done 100 and one pitches. I think he gets Thomas and he hands this one over to the bullpen. He leads three nothing al up and warming to right playable Kepler Max is over. He's got it. And Bailey over nine consecutive quality starts six more scoreless today here in game 1234 of this inning and hopefully 567, they need to put this game away smack to left center field and Buxton a leadoff hit and you bet he's thinking too, Thomas will fire to second base. No chance. How fun is that to watch in the gap. Buxton single, never on his mind. A leadoff double to begin the sixth inning. The fans are pumping the buck truck broken bat. Cantillo plant skips it to first and just in time to beat Lewis as Buxton advances down to third with Cantillo, he had his eyes set on Buxton Then realized I don't have a teammate there and a plant that ball into the ground but had enough on it to get Lewis infield in 30. Minnesota runner at third one out bottom of the sixth coming home, Schieman and Buxton is tagged out to first base and it's dropped by Naylor. So the contact play was on Schieman gloving this one cleanly at a perfect to Naylor and Buxton tagged out and Cleveland nearly turned the double play but josh Naylor could not handle the throw. Twins a 30 lead job well done. Bailey over. Now the twins bullpen and a swing and a liner to center base hit and with a single to go along with his walk and he becomes the second Cleveland Guardian with a hit today. This one to right Kepler coming in near the line, Kepler will dive and Kepler makes another great play that Kepler saved the hit and potentially a Cleveland Guardians run if that gets by him into the corner, Jimenez may scoot around all the way from first and score. Here is Brian Roel zero for two switch hitter batting left handed one out, one on three, swung on hit high in the air to fairly deep. Right Kepler on the warning track he's up against it. It is gone a two run home run for Brian Roel fifth of the year , we've got a one run game back to the catch match made. And if that ball drop in, we're talking about a game back to back base hits an inside out cut for Willie Castro snapping an over 13 and the twins now with runners on the corners. Now, kyle Farmer going to bat softly to right Brennan over, he'll make the catch. Kepler will tag and score. So Farmer makes contact and the twins score their fourth run. 16th RB I for Farmer. It's a sack fly and the twins grow the lead back to two, 4 to 2 twins ninth inning last shot for Cleveland. So the Guardians have the tying run coming up and Brian Roch who homered out to right in the seventh inning. Now the 2 to 2, he struck him out over and the twins beat the Guardians 42 huge series, huge home stand and the twins are only 2.5 games back with three more left to play against the first place Guardians here this weekend.